Oh Happy Day! Chris graduated with a BS in Mechanical Engineering on Friday! It was a beautiful day, and we had a great time! We are deciding between a couple of job options, so you should see a post about that in the next couple of weeks. We have loved BYU and Provo and look forward to starting a new chapter in our lives!

I just got back from visiting the Qians and San Francisco! Kiersta and I had a fabulous time with Lori, William, Annabelle, Abraham, and Alexander! Alexander is a precious little guy, and he's SO good! Lori and Will showed us around the beautiful town of Pleasanton, and we went to San Mateo, Palo Alto, Oakland, Alameda, and San Francisco, too! We were very sad to say goodbye, but we have lots of great memories to think of until the next time we see them!

The first night we went to the yummy Cheesecake Factory.

On day 2 we went to San Mateo to visit Liddy and cute little boy, Landon.

Day 3 was in San Francisco. We are waiting to catch the trolley in this shot.

This is at the Palace of Fine Arts. It's left over from the World's Fair.

Unfortunately, I sat in the droppings of one of the many seagulls!

Day 4 we went to the temple. The kids are making fish faces!

Aren't they sweet?

Sorry, for the shadows, but it's the best I could do....

The Charlotte and Atlanta Harts sent some of their NC Christmas pictures to me!

Ally holding Blake's guitar during our caroling adventure

Little Braden

Brothers & their boys

Preparing to go caroling

The little boys fighting over who will ring the bell

Nativity with the grandkids

Stephie and Braden

Evan

Kylee, Leah, Collin, & Tanner

Christmas Morning

Leah on Christmas Eve

Chris & Santa on our caroling adventure

The littlest grandsons

Wow! It was a very busy holiday break! Chris and I drove down to Las Vegas on Thursday, the 21st, for the Las Vegas Bowl (BYU vs. Oregon). We got to Vegas an hour early, and it took us an hour and a half to travel about 10 miles to the stadium. It was crazy. We finally got to the stadium and pulled out the camera to take some pictures, but the batteries were dead!!!!!! That seemed to be our luck that day. The Cougars won 38-8, which was awesome!

The next morning we got up early to fly to NC and see the Hart fam. We had an awesome week with them. The grandkids were especially fun! I should've been better about taking pics there. When I get some from them, I'll post them on the blog.

Last Thursday night we flew from Atlanta to LA for Lisa's wedding. Friday morning she and Shane were sealed at the LA temple. It was beautiful! We had fun taking pictures all around the temple grounds. That night was the beautiful reception.

LA Temple

Just married!

Roberts Ladies (Jess, Ally, Emily, Lisa, & Michelle)

Roberts Family
(Rich, Taylor, Joe, Chris, Emily, Shane, Lisa, Karen, Mike, Matt, Ryan, & Jake)

Roberts Boys & Lisa

Roberts with In-Laws

Ally & Jess

Rich & Jess

Outside the LA Temple

Reception

Saturday we drove down to Pacific Beach in San Diego, where Mike and Karen had a time share condo. We spent three days playing there. New Year's Eve was especially fun, because there were fireworks off the pier right in front of the condo! We also got to see Brig, Linh, and their new baby, Logan.

San Diego Temple

Outside the San Diego Temple

Happy New Year!

Pacific Beach

Pacific Beach

Chris & Logan

We spent all of Tuesday driving home and are happy to be back! It will be a LONG time before we take a trip that long again! I hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday. It sure looks like Christmas in Provo. It is snowing right now, and we already have about 3 inches from the snowfall earlier today.

We got together with a lot of friends on Saturday and had a great time! I don't have a pic with the guys yet, but when I get one, I will post it!

It's time for Omniture Holiday Party 2006. Chris took most of these pictures, so they are pretty much all me. Anyway, it was at the Grand America in SLC, which is beautiful. We had fun taking pics outside by the fountain and beautiful decorations. The other pic is from Chris' birthday. He ended up taking his gift back and getting TiVo. We love it!!!